All Flashcards
What is the significance of Claude McKay's 'If We Must Die'?
A powerful poem of resistance and defiance written during the Red Summer, inspiring Black resilience.
What is the 'Red Summer'?
The summer of 1919 marked by extreme racial violence against Black communities across the U.S.
Define white supremacist violence.
Systematic campaign of terror aimed at maintaining white dominance, including lynchings and riots.
What was Black Wall Street?
A thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known for its economic prosperity before its destruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States.
Define the Great Migration.
The movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North and West.
What is lynching?
Extrajudicial killing by a mob, often used against African Americans to instill fear and maintain white supremacy.
Define racial terrorism.
Acts of violence intended to intimidate and control a racial group, often with the goal of maintaining social hierarchy.
What is the NAACP?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a civil rights organization formed to fight for Black rights.
What is the UNIA?
Universal Negro Improvement Association, a Black nationalist organization founded by Marcus Garvey.
Define sharecropping.
A system where tenant farmers give a portion of their crops to the landowner as rent, often trapping them in debt.
Who was Ida B. Wells-Barnett and what was her impact?
A journalist and activist who documented the horrors of lynching and fought for racial justice.
Who was Claude McKay and what was his impact?
A poet whose work, like 'If We Must Die,' became a symbol of Black resilience and resistance.
Who was Ossian Sweet?
An African American doctor who defended his home against a white mob, highlighting the importance of self-defense.
Who was Marcus Garvey?
Founder of the UNIA, advocating for Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism.